Dimensions 290 x 450 mm. Manuscript on paper. [8]pp. Contemporary printed buff wrappers. Rubbed and marked.

[Together with:] [Drop-head title:] Yes or no? Dimensions 290 x 450 mm. Single leaf broadside. Old horizontal folds, some marginal loss. Two copies.

[And:] Four copies of a handbill entitled An appeal from the four in chains. To the inhabitants of Christchurch; three of which with a manuscript version of the above to blank verso. [s.i.]. [s.n.], [s.d.]. Dimensions 230 x 290 mm.

[And:] A manuscript version of the above recorded in a contemporary ledger.

An anonymous mid nineteenth-century manuscript, together with a clutch of related ephemeral survivals - all apparently unrecorded - included a printed version of said manuscript; a polemic aimed at diplomatist Sir George Rose (1770-1855), Lord of the Manor and others over the development of the common field of Portfield in Christchurch, Dorset.